Two-wheeled vehicle



(No Model.)

B. J. HEALY.

TWO WHEELBD VEHICLE.

N0. 378,447. Patented Feb; 28, 1888.

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' Parana @rrrca iYR-ON J. HEALY, OF KALAMAZOG, MICHIGAN.

TWO-WHEELED VEHICLE.

SPECIPICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 378,446), datedFebruary 28, 1888.

Application filed November 10, 1887. Serial No. 254,706. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BYRON J. HEALY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Kalama zoo, county of Kalamazoo, and State of Michigan, haveinvented a new and useful Twoheelcd Vehicle, of which the following is afall and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

This invention relates to the ordinary style of two-wheeled vehicleshaving a body or seathars supported over the axle and fulcru med to thethills or cross-bar at the forward end, and has for its object apeculiar formation of the spring supports and a novel association ofthem with the body and axle, as below described and claimed.

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification, in whichsimilar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation with one wheel removed and the rear part ofone thill broken. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the vehicle. Fig. 3 is anenlarged detail of the spring and its supports, also showing thebody-supports attached to said spring. Fig. 4c is a detail of the T-shaped supports for the thills at 21-.

Referring to the lettered parts of the drawings, B are the thills.

l) are the seat-bars of the body fulcruined at the forward ends andhaving spring-supports a, made of iron or wood, pivoted to said bars ata, the rear ends of said supports being shackled to the axle at r. Thespring 3, being parallel with and in front of the axle, is shackled tosaid supports near their rear ends. The body or seat-bars are supportedby means of the bar 0, attached to the upper side of the spring, asshown in Figs. 1 and 3.

The dotted lines a in Fig. 2 show how the spring-supports may be carriedover to and attached to t-hill-clips, if desired, to use a longer springand wider seat.

By means of brace-rods c c c c, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, I formtrusses to the body or seat-bars, thus preventing the said. seatbarsfrom straightening or lengthening when the seat is occupied by twopersons, as is generally the case when untrussed seat-bars are used.

In Fig. 2 is shown in dotted lines that a pole may be used by uncouplingthe forward part of the thills B and removing the T-shaped plate 1) andthe clip 3 and attaching the crossbar 5v to the thill-stubs B B, saidcrossbars w being attached to the pole F, the rear end of which isattached to the cross-bar A and held in place, the bolt passing throughthe whiflle trec P. So far as this mode of attaching the pole isconcerned it is not new with me; but the attaching and detaching of theforward portion of the thills by means of the T-sha-ped plate b, boltedto the thill B and thill-stud B, and the clip 7, for stiffening andholding in place thejoint a, I claim as new and novel.

In explanation, it will be observed, by referring to Fig. 1, thatinasmuch as the springsupports a a are pivoted at their forward ends tothe seat-bars, as at o, and thattheirrear ends are shackled to the axle,as at r, they partake of the forward and backward motion as the bodyswings up or down, thereby preventing lateral displacement of the springin its bearings.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of the body fulcruined at the forward end, the axlewith the springsnpports pivoted to said body and shackled to the axle,as described and shown.

2. The combination of the axle, a body or seat-bars fulcrumed at theforward ends, the spring-supports pivoted to said bars at their forwardends and their rear ends shackled to said axle, the spring shackled atits ends to said spring-supports and rigidly attached to described.

3. The combination, in a two-wheeled vehicle, of the seat-supportingbars D, consisting ofa single curved bar each side of the body and heldto their shape by a series of braceirons, c c a, running lengthwise ofthe bars, the connecting ends of which cross and pass by the point ofcontact with the bar of its adjoining brace before attaching to saidbar.

4. The combination of the body fulcrnined at the forward end, thespring-supports pivoted to said body and attached to the axle by thethill-clips.

5. In combination, a Vehicle-spring and the body, all in combination, asshown and spring-supports, said supports fulcrnmed at ing the frontportion of the thills, as shown and one end to a vehicle-body, and theother end described. attached to the axle or bolster, and the-springslocated between and their ends attached to the BYRON HEALY' 5 supportsand to the body. WVitnesses: 6. The combination of the axle, the body, JOHN (1. PERKINS,

the thills, and the T-shaped plates for attaeh- GUY BANNISTER.

